Hello All,
Like many others I have started purchasing my accessories early, so that they are ready when I get my Note 2 delivered to my door. I just received my micro SD card, and I have a few questions. I am wanting to have all my music and pictures loaded onto the SD card prior to the phone arriving. My only questions is would it be better to keep it in the format that it was sent in which was exfat, or should i format it to Fat32? I did do a search but I was unable to find a definitive answer which was best. It sounds like the note 2 can support both formats. Also most people leaned toward the exfat due to it not having the 4gb size file limitation, but I have not heard anyone successfully doing this even with it as exfat.
Any thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
I would ask the international folks since they actually have the device.
That being said, I will use exFAT as long as their isn't a drop in I/O performance.
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It is best to format your card in a phone. I would wait till you have the Note2. I know people that have had issues formatting cards on their computer and using them in the galaxy s3
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In order for CWM recovery to read the ext sd, it will need to be reformatted to fat32...also your pictures wont show up in the gallery, atleast this is how the gs3 is and I dont think the gn2 will be any different.
droidstyle said:
In order for CWM recovery to read the ext sd, it will need to be reformatted to fat32...also your pictures wont show up in the gallery, atleast this is how the gs3 is and I dont think the gn2 will be any different.
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So just to confirm what you are saying is it is probably best to format it to Fat32?
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m4tt.03 said:
So just to confirm what you are saying is it is probably best to format it to Fat32?
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Yes thats what I had to do on my GS3...
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Yes thats what I had to do on my GS3...
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Agreed, find a free tool online to format it, windows didn't do the job right for me
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droidstyle said:
In order for CWM recovery to read the ext sd, it will need to be reformatted to fat32...also your pictures wont show up in the gallery, atleast this is how the gs3 is and I dont think the gn2 will be any different.
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That's why I use twrp...it reads ntfs fat32 and exfat...twrp on my gnex and Tf300T transformer tablet.
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droidstyle said:
In order for CWM recovery to read the ext sd, it will need to be reformatted to fat32...also your pictures wont show up in the gallery, atleast this is how the gs3 is and I dont think the gn2 will be any different.
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Sounds like the perfect place to store porn
Just a note about the sd cards for this phone. I talked to a Samsung rep last night and asked them what size, speed and file format works in the Note II. He said up to a 64GB Class 10 card formatted to FAT32 will work, and that it can be formatted in the phone.
I just wanted something official since I was reading so many conflicting posts on-line about what works and what doesn't.
I'm using 64gb formated exfat and have no issues. See the file sizes?
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I have a 32gb card from my inspire I would like to use, all my music and some videos. It also has my titanium backups. Can I safely put this card in without messing something up?
It should. Don't see why it wouldn't work. Lol
Don't know about the titanium backup apps. But music and vidoes should be fine
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gadget069 said:
I have a 32gb card from my inspire I would like to use, all my music and some videos. It also has my titanium backups. Can I safely put this card in without messing something up?
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The Titanium Backup(s) should work fine...but it does depend on each individual app and if it is compatible with your new SGSII. In general, Titanium Backup works on the SGSII. I wouldn't recommend "restoring" system apps from your Inspire, however. That may cause issues.
I seem to remember seeing a video of a 64gb SD card being properly read and used on a GSII.
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I seem to remember seeing a video of a 64gb SD card being properly read and used on a GSII.
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And I have read that the SGS2 "officially" supports SD cards up to 32GB...so it sounds as though the OP would be OK with the 32GB card. Frankly I'm surprised such an advanced phone doesn't support cards even bigger than 32GB.
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And I have read that the SGS2 "officially" supports SD cards up to 32GB...so it sounds as though the OP would be OK with the 32GB card. Frankly I'm surprised such an advanced phone doesn't support cards even bigger than 32GB.
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I can assure you the 32 gig cards work. Im using a 32gig class 4 sandisk as we speak. No problems what so ever.
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rogerntami said:
And I have read that the SGS2 "officially" supports SD cards up to 32GB...so it sounds as though the OP would be OK with the 32GB card. Frankly I'm surprised such an advanced phone doesn't support cards even bigger than 32GB.
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Does anyone sell a micro SD card that's bigger than 32gb? I'm fairly sure the vid I saw said that the 64gb used wasn't available to the public yet.
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Does anyone sell a micro SD card that's bigger than 32gb?
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I think pny sells a 64 gb. But im not 100 percent positive on that
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MrWhite1127 said:
I think pny sells a 64 gb. But im not 100 percent positive on that
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I've seen SD and CF cards that are 64gb but not micro SD.
Off topic: I see you're in Sherwood. I'm across the city in Maumelle. Nice to see a fellow Arkansan on here.
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I've seen SD and CF cards that are 64gb but not micro SD.
Off topic: I see you're in Sherwood. I'm across the city in Maumelle. Nice to see a fellow Arkansan on here.
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Oh yeah! Whats up man. Shoot me a pm.
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Actually, as soon as you put the card in your phone, a message pops up stating "All Your Base Are Belong To Us - HTC".
Only joking, you won't have any issues whatsoever whether it be the phone recognizing the card or your titanium backups. Obviously, you already know about having the phone detect the location of your backups. That would be the only thing to take into account. As someone stated earlier, make sure you don't restore any system apps because that can cause issues. Also, you don't want to replace any apps that are on the phone with your backups because that can cause issues as well.
All in all, you should be safe for whatever you are trying to do.
Good luck and welcome to the wonderful world of Galaxy S.
I just moved my Micro SD card from my Inspire to my Galaxy. The card already had backups, titanium backups, apps, music, etc. All read on the S2 with no issues what so ever. I had it loaded to nearly 25 gigs and it took a matter of seconds for my phone to scan it.
My coworker is stock rooted gingerbread with a 32GB sd card (with 25gb still available for use). He's been that way for about 2 months now, and uses stock camera and gallery.
For some reason now, his pics aren't saving. I just tried myself with his phone, and the pic was saved to ext_sd/dcim/... I saw it in the folder using root explorer. Within 5 min, the pic was replaced with the triangle error sign.
Any thoughts?
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few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
mrmako777 said:
few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
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I will have him try... I told him to let me throw ics on that shiz and call it a day
Side note, you've been one of the most helpful people here man... For that, I publicly thank you :beer:
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update?
andy55 said:
update?
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It didn't bring the pics back obviously but pics are saving (idk where... Can't find using root explorer) but they are saving.
He has to xfer media to int sd before formatting
And I told him to get a sandisk
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Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
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Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
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My thoughts exactly! I hate eBay, and that is where he got it (for cheap... Go figure ). I didn't know there were cards that read 32 but were only 8. It makes sense since he has used 6gb of space (and we all know 8gb isn't really 8gb)
Thanks
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So I just got my new 64gb class 10 sd card, and last time I did a partition on sd card was about 2 year ago on the og evo, and I remember its was useful to have a partion ext.3 but now I see there is ext.4 also along the ext.2 as well. so my question is do I still need to partition sd card and which partition should I use? and what size? thank a lot!
U can see fat32 on mini partition tool....fat32 work on all android mobiles
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I'm getting one in the mail also Saturday and was going to ask also. Don't you just put the card in your phone and format it and it works to get all 59GB? Then transfer all of my info from my 32gb card over to it?
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xbmoyx said:
I'm getting one in the mail also Saturday and was going to ask also. Don't you just put the card in your phone and format it and it works to get all 59GB? Then transfer all of my info from my 32gb card over to it?
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yeah, your correct but that to transfer your data from one card to the other. I'm asking about sd partition? and ext.4 and what it does?
and if nessecasry to have. I notice some roms show in the description something about ext.4 partition.
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yeah, your correct but that to transfer your data from one card to the other. I'm asking about sd partition? and ext.4 and what it does?
and if nessecasry to have. I notice some roms show in the description something about ext.4 partition.
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Oh, well I was going to transfer all my data on my 32 go my laptop then from my laptop to my new 64. If I do it this way does my card have to be "Partitioned"?
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keep in mind; fat32 has 4GB single file limit which means you wont be able to save anything larger than that such as blu-ray 1080p rips, etc...
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keep in mind; fat32 has 4GB single file limit which means you wont be able to save anything larger than that such as blu-ray 1080p rips, etc...
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Ok cool, good to know. I don't think I have anything greater than maybe 1.5gb in size which is a TWRP backup.
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I just bought a new 64gb for my note and it doesn't work. I tried to format it and couldn't and then I put it in my friends note 2 and it formatted and worked fine. I went into settings in my phone and it doesn't show anything at all in the external sd slot. I know this is a noobie question but, could you guys throw a dog a bone.?
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what rom are you on? ive been on roms that dont recognize sd cards
Odd. I tried a buddy of mines 64gb and it didn't see it either. I'm on cookies n cream and would like an answer to this as well cuz these 64gb micros are on the cheap right now and I waaaaaaaaaant one!!
i717...cookied n creamed
Bullet619 said:
I just bought a new 64gb for my note and it doesn't work. I tried to format it and couldn't and then I put it in my friends note 2 and it formatted and worked fine. I went into settings in my phone and it doesn't show anything at all in the external sd slot. I know this is a noobie question but, could you guys throw a dog a bone.?
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When I got mine I could not get it to work, there are several threads around on this, most say to format it using your phone which did not work for me. As I recall I ended up formatting with my PC and I had to use FAT32 filesystem. The ext32 filesystem that is suppose to handle 4GB files would not work for me.
android4545 said:
what rom are you on? ive been on roms that dont recognize sd cards
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I'm on cookies and cream but if it's rom based I'm willing to change to whatever rom that works. Just say the word and ill flash.
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I'm using a Sandisk 64GB microsd I got from Amazon with no problems. Running ICS Black Star X, I formatted the card in the phone if that makes any difference. I read online that memory cards on ebay are usually fakes so hope you bought from a reputable seller.
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I'm using a Sandisk 64GB microsd I got from Amazon with no problems. Running ICS Black Star X, I formatted the card in the phone if that makes any difference. I read online that memory cards on ebay are usually fakes so hope you bought from a reputable seller.
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Yeah.. I also got mine on Amazon... I'll try ICS Black Star X and see if that works... Thanks... I would like some more feedback though just in case that doesn't work.
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Officially the Note 1 doesn't support the 64Gb card however a lot of people are saying to format Fat32.
I decided to just roll with a 32 gig myself though
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Has anyone ran into a issue with their sdcard and their Note2?
Last night I used my Note2 with no issues. Woke up this morning and noticed I had a alert message saying that the sdcard had been unexpectedly unmounted. Couldnt get the sdcard to remount. The phone wouldn't/couldnt reconize thw sdcard. And even my laptop couldn't reconize it. But the phone reconized a different sdcard, so I know the phone reader is still working. But this is a Lexar 64gb class 10 xc sdcard. Not some cheap trash. I lost my nandroid backups, movies, pics, etc....
Just glad I wasn't running the Jellybeans v18 on the sdcard swap selection. Then I wouldn't be able to use my phone period. Lmk if you have seen these sdcards go out before. Just beware!!!
Why wouldn't you be able to use it phone if card goes down
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earled said:
Why wouldn't you be able to use it phone if card goes down
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What he's referring to is JellyBeans additional "SD Swap" feature which basically makes your phone see your SD Card as the internal storage. I don't know why he thinks his phone wouldn't work though, as with any phone the Internal Storage/SD Card is not required for the device to operate.
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What he's referring to is JellyBeans additional "SD Swap" feature which basically makes your phone see your SD Card as the internal storage. I don't know why he thinks his phone wouldn't work though, as with any phone the Internal Storage/SD Card is not required for the device to operate.
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I understand to SD swap. it was the unable to use my phone if card failed thing. I thought it should even if card failed
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Has anyone ran into a issue with their sdcard and their Note2?
Last night I used my Note2 with no issues. Woke up this morning and noticed I had a alert message saying that the sdcard had been unexpectedly unmounted. Couldnt get the sdcard to remount. The phone wouldn't/couldnt reconize thw sdcard. And even my laptop couldn't reconize it. But the phone reconized a different sdcard, so I know the phone reader is still working. But this is a Lexar 64gb class 10 xc sdcard. Not some cheap trash. I lost my nandroid backups, movies, pics, etc....
Just glad I wasn't running the Jellybeans v18 on the sdcard swap selection. Then I wouldn't be able to use my phone period. Lmk if you have seen these sdcards go out before. Just beware!!!
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I've ran into this issue with Lexar jump drives and had to use command prompt in W7 to make them work again. It always happened when I would write a Linux distro to the drive to use as a bootable disk.
The fix requires you completely wiping the drive, which the two jump drives in question that I always have issues with are actually micro SD card readers with whatever size card in them.
Here is the link explaining how to fix it:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/219693/unable-to-format-usb-stick-to-full-capacity/
What I have to do though is select the disk drive and once in it I have to use the Create Partition Primary command instead of selecting a partition because on my drives there are no partitions and it won't even show up under Computer most of the time. Give it a shot and see if it gets you back up and running, if not you may have a faulty card that Lexar needs to replace.
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I was reading, some people are problems with the scandisk 64gig cards. The card might be dead from what I've read. But don't hold it against me, just passing some info. I haven't ran across this problem.
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simmons80 said:
I was reading, some people are problems with the scandisk 64gig cards. The card might be dead from what I've read. But don't hold it against me, just passing some info. I haven't ran across this problem.
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I went through 5 sandisk 64GB cards before I got one that worked for more than a week. All brand new cards. That was back when the GSIII first came out though.
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I myself used an adata 64gb class 10 and understand completely about the card just not wanting to work. Granted I'm keeping to 32gb class 10s until I see better reviews in the bigger cards.
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I went through 5 sandisk 64GB cards before I got one that worked for more than a week. All brand new cards. That was back when the GSIII first came out though.
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See I've never experienced any issues with either of my SanDisk 64 GB Class 10 and neither has anyone else I know that owns one. I wonder if they had a bad batch?
I haven't seen anything about other manufacturers 64GB Class 10 cards having issues yet but it is either something to do with Class 10 cards or a bad batch.
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I just had a sandisk 32 gig class 10, and a 16 gig both go out on the same day. One in my wife's note 2, the other in my daughters tab2. Neither was recognised in windows completely. I reformatted both, but 16 gig will show blank card on the wife's phone until unmounted remounted. Both less than 6 months old, on the same day. I blame the solar flares, what else can I blame it on?
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Sandisk work the best
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Sandisk work the best
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I wouldn't say that, I would say they are the most expensive therefore people think they work the best. Cause everything that costs more is better, right?
Honestly PNY and Samsung cards are just as good.
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There was a problem with SanDisk ultra sd cards during the manufacturing process and they will replace your card for free
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How intresting. I just put in a 32 gig SanDisk Micro class I (has an I in the little U at the base o the card, guess it one ups the class 10...).
I record movie torrents. No problems so far on my Note 2 rooted not unlocked b loader
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wife's 32gb card just started acting up. Sometimes the phone reads it, other times not. Haven't had time to investigate it yet.
Are you using moon rom v3? Same thing happened to me. It kept saying it was un mounting and remounting. I rebooted my phone and gave a sim lock message. Thought I was screwed. I flashed beans and now im back to normal.
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I had 2 cards die in this phone. Same message and everything. But I rebought them and replaced the old cards with the new one
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james873 said:
There was a problem with SanDisk ultra sd cards during the manufacturing process and they will replace your card for free
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How do you go about doing this? I have no original paperwork or packaging, just a dead 32GB Sandisk card.
call 1-866-SANDISK (726-3475) and tell them about your problems they will ask for the numbers off the card. They make you send your to them first then when they recieve it they'll send you a new one.
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My samsung 64g Class 10 has worked perfectly since I got it in February.
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